Noun: pape
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pape |
| Singular f | papesse |
| Plural m | papes |
Sample Sentences
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Le pape est mort. (The pope is dead.)
Nouns inflected like pape
satyre,
chanoine,
félibre,
sauvage,
notaire,
centaure,
gonze,
comte,
tigre,
âne,
traître,
druide,
apôtre,
mulâtre,
prêtre,
isapôtre,
pauvre,
ogre,
pape,
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pape, from Old French pape, from Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, “patriarch, bishop”), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
πάπας'.
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